The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In the Times of yesterday was presented a mass of im portant State documents relating to Canada, and to Lord Durham's mission thither. 1. The act of his appointment. 2. The ordinances of Lord Durham, disallowed by the Government which had selected him. 3. The Bill of In demnity passed by Parliament, which recognized the ille gality of his Lordship's proceedings, and screened him from all legal consequences of the responsibility thereby incurred. The perusal of the above documents could hardly fail to produce the effect for which we intended them—viz., that of satisfying all those of our readers who could under stand the technicalities of the language employed as to the ostensible purposes of the Melbourne Ministers in con fiding such an office to Lord Durham. We repeat the word "ostensible" purposes, because it must be sufficiently obvious, from a comparison of the things required to be done in North America with the means provided for their accomplishment, and with the circum stances under which the Noble Lord was placed, that the permanent tranquillization of Lower Canada, if Ministers had any reasonable knowledge of those circum stances, could not have been the chief or true end proposed by Lord Durham's motion ; but that it was desired by Lord Melbourne at once to get rid of the Lord High Commissioner's presence, and to separate him from the clique of " Extended Suffrage" men, and " Short Parlia ment" men, " Ballot mongering" men, and others consti tuting that mischievous political monster, calling itself " the Movement," the fanatics, or impostors, who, like Mr. Ward, of Sheffield, have taken for their motto " On, on," and who, in accepting Lord Durham for a leader, less tortuous and deceitful than Lord Brougham, would at the same time have rendered him an instrument more con ducive to their own objects, and for that reason more in convenient to the Ministers, as being of a name hitherto (notwithstanding some awkward occurrences) less blown upon than that of the slippery ex-Chancellor, who tripped up the heels of his patron and benefactor, Lord Grey. Few persons, we believe, who know anything about the interior menage of the Whig-Radical faction, will have the smallest hesitation in admitting that the primary and moving impulse was to send Lord Dur ham to some climate—if less cold and less distant than that of Siberia.--(which, through the kindness of his humble friend and disinterested flatterer—one Nicholas Romanoff —his Lordship had escaped, albeit with a reputation torn to ribenels)—if, we say, to some less remote and inclement region than Siberia, it was no fault of theirs, for even the colonial empire of England has its limits. But the second object was no less characteristically kind, and still more long-sighted, for the position allotted to the Noble Lord was such as to make it all but physically impossible that he should emerge from it otherwise than in a plight besmeared and unfragrant. That Lord Durham was not alive to the imminent probability of such an unpleasant result, that he at last swallowed the glittering bait of a miscalled dictator ship, though held out to him by the hand of rosy-fingered Majesty—a bait implying the functions of a war-finisher, a law-giver, a constitution-founder, a nation-changer, and whatever else was to be most highflying and transcendental in the attributes of a ruler over men—argues unquestion ably not much in praise of the wisdom or self-knowledge of the Noble Earl. It bespeaks, as we apprehend all shrewd observers will agree, a good deal more of the smart, confident recklessness of a schoolboy, than of those quali ties which distinguish the searching statesman's mind. There was in his final plunge into this new office, proof sn palpable of an infirm will, and of an impolitic, though courteous and gall-ant, surrender of a just repugnance to the siege of an unconstitutional, however tempting soli citation, that the very feeling in which I, rd Durham's assumption of the " High Commissionership" had its source afforded but a sinister prognostic of its successful issue. We asked at the time why it was that the brave and able Governor whom Lord Durham was destined to supersede —why it was that one of the most skilful and resolute offi cers, and one of the most experienced and efficient civil administrators in the empire—namely, Sir J. Colborne— should be superseded by a personage like Lord Durham, who had left on record no evidence whatsoever of capacit , for the service either of peace or war. Nevertheless, away went Lord Durham. His appointment of a Council at least was strange. The members of it had not the qualification required by the Act which constituted the new authority for the government of the North American provinces —viz., that of being previously approved of by her Majesty under the Great seal. But, irregular as was this transaction, people seemed inclined to pass it over. The state of things was difficult, and it was generally resolved, after some little murmuring, to give elbow-room and fair play to the Lord High Commissioner and his household Council—his domestic, and singular at least, if not in the sense of the Act of Parliament, his Lordship's " Special" Council. News reached England from time to time that the tranquillizing measures of the new Government bad begun to take effect, and that the Canadians were getting into better humour with Great Britain. It now turns out that all such intelligence was un true ; that arms and stores were busily prepared along the frontier, and smuggled into Canada ; that numbers of uncivilized and sanguinary ruffians from the United States, were flocking to their several points of rendezvous, and all this, moreover, down to the last scenes of the Dur ham Administration of which we have any distinct ac count. In fact, it now appears that whatever powers had been successfully exercised towards the putting down of actual rebellion had produced their fruits before Lord Dur ham's arrival, and therefore that for the immediate transition from war to even the semblance of peace in Canada, the country stands indebted exclusively to the judg men t an d vigour of Sir John Colborne's Administration. Is this blame to Lord Durham ? Certainly not. The case was not one for suitle statesmanship, or for political refinement. The Canadas bad tried to separate themselves from Great Br tain. - - - They did not feel themselves sufficiently beaten, nor - • punished with so much severity, as to give up the enter prise in despair. They wanted not to be a free people, as between government and subject, but to be a separate people, as between Great Britain and Lower Canada. This, therefore, was not a case for policy or statesman ship ; it was a trial of strength, to be solved by force of arms. The complex m achinations of the Whig Ministry were ludicrous in such a crisis, and well were they laughed at, and signally were Lord Glenelg's instruc. tions translated and expounded by the cool sarcastic glossary of Sir Robert Peel. However, the High Corn missionership marched on—the ordinances came—the discussions upon them after some few days were active, incessant, and universal throughout the kingdom—Par liament, the press, the people, everywhere canvassed them—Lord Brougham's motion forced out the sent"- meats of the Conservative lawyers upon the leg tlity of those ordinances. The Conservative statesmen having hid before them by those professional authorities in whom they most justly confided a case of clear and broad unlawfulness in a public functionary of the highest rank, could do no ot,herwise than act upon such authorities, and would as suredly have been far from justified in scrutinizing the ma. lives of Lord Brougham, and voting in defiance of what they were informed was the law, because he with whom the inquiry originated had projects to help forward and passions to indulge, which were shared in by no Con. servative. But, if it be fair to draw a line between Lord Brougham and the Conservatives, the former of whom was assailing a personal enemy, and the latter merely vindicating the dominion of the law, how much more essential is it to di criminate between the Whigs and the Conservatives, the latter of whom were engaged in an act of duty towards the country, while the former left their own lawyers in the lurch, refused to accept their own Lord Chancellor's construction of the law of England, or that of their own law officers in the House of Commons, each of whom bad declared the ordinances of Lord Durham to be legal in every but a single, subordinate instance, defensible and praiseworthy in all their parts — yet these heartless Ministers trea cherously kicked away the plank of safety which had been fixed for their absent. colleague, and sacrificed him to legal doctrine, which, in their to repudiate. LorOdwl3 speeches, they affected ear nestlyurham's exclamations on this subject in Canada will carr contempt and obloquy towards these Ministers into the remotest notest parts of England. The w language used by them rd aggravat e their universal con• na denation. They defended Lord by declaring that Sir J. Colborne had acted no ss in defi a n ce of the l aw s of England than the Noble Earl, e but that o nobodynSir j ad . ev er dreamed of castin g a Parliamentaryt their censure Colborne. Yet they, professing that Lord High C o mmissioner wa s e q ually innocent wi th his predecessor, b ecam e parties to an act condemnin g L ord Durham, which they pronoun ced would, in the case of Sir J Colbornethiah d , have been iniq uitous and monstrous! Verily, the y in a respectable point of view before the world.—Times. SIR P. LAVRIE AND THE husußy.......r) , Loru o%iforo has taken up the shillelagh in defence of the class cormorant of his countrymen, and amongst other things fires off the following That bra' . Scot,. Sir Peter Laurie, who now and then administers justice indifferently at the Guildhall in London, often betrays a jealousy—natura, pe_rhaps—ot hish adventurers who bend their footsteps towards London to seek their' f o rtune. I wish,' said his Worship. last week to a poor fellow who had failed in his hopes of obtaining im a place in that hard servitude the London police, ' I wish an pa ble wall could be raised all round Ireland.' Indeed, Sir Peter ! That is very considerate of you ; but so would not all your countrymen, vast numbers of whom come to Ireland without the whisper of an invitation, and contrive to nestle themselves right comfortably upon the birthright of those whose distress so frequently selves to point your wit, good Sir Peter, and give brilliancy to your sallies. D,ubtless the lank and voracious locusts from the north are quite as great a nuisance in London upon their first arrival here ma the low Irish there selves. Live an let live, good Sir Peter: there is coon' enough in Babylon for both of you; so nec mair of your in. vecdceous retractions." FIRJ AT 13. ARROW-ON-THE-HILL. (From the Times.) It is with deep regret we have to announce to the public that a fire burst out on Monday evening in the retired vil laee of Harrow-on-the-Hill, which is likely to be long re membered by the neighbourhood for the extensive devasta tion which it occasioned. How it originated cannot at present be ascertained ; some say that it was owing to the carelessness with which one of the alumni of the school used his candle in his private room , and others, that it was owing to the overheating of a flue in the house of Mr. Co lenzo, the mathematical master, where it was first disco % ered. One fact, however, is certain, that the flirt) , s fist burst out in one of the rooms of that gentleman's house, between six and seven o'clock in the evening. By some new arrangement, with which the public has nothing to do, the Rev. Mr. Wordsworth, tire present head master, though reserving to himself a superinten dence over all the pupils at his school, has declined the task, undertaken by his predecessors, of boarding and lodging any young gentlemen in his own house. He has in consequence given up to Mr. Colenzo premises adjoining to his own, which possess an extensive frontage to the street, and run back from it to a very considerable depth. Some of them are coeval with the school itself, and now that the fire has denuded them of all adventitious ornament, present an appearance of venerable antiquity to the eye. The frontage, however, of that part %%Ilia the Rev. Mr. Wordsworth still keeps for himself was renewed some years ago by the Rev. Dr. Butler, in the English style of Queen Elizabeth's reign, at a cost of some thou sand pounds, and though now nodding to its fall, is a splen did memorial of his generosity towards the institution over which he so long and to ably presided. All this mass of buildin g , dear as it must be to every Harrovian, has been utterly destroyed by the conflagration of Monday night. For a length of time there was no pause in the progress of the flames ; they went on crackling, crashing, and consuming, and had it not been for the energy of the pupils of the school, who formed themselves into two lines to convey the empty buckets from the engines to the pond, and the full buckets back again from the pond to the engine, there is no saying where the fury of the fiery pestilence might have been stayed. Every flung in Mr. Colenzo's house was soon destroyed, and beds, books, bookcases, tables, drawers, every kind of furniture, became the prey of the flames. The boys lost almost everything but the clothes in which they stood ; and seemed almost to rejoice in the loss which they sustained. One of them, a boy of the name of Cunningham, who was lying dangerously ill in bed, was all but suffocated by the smoke ; he was, however, wrapped up by his friends in a blanket, and removed, though not without some difficulty, to a place of safety. From Mr. Colenzo's house the movement of the flames to that of the Rev. Mr. Wordsworth was as rapid as the want of obstacle could make it, and in consequence that Rev. Gentleman's house was soon one universal blaze. Most of his furniture was destroyed ; but part of it was conveyed to the cloisters or vaults beneath the school. His plate, we understand, was preserved, but all his books were destroyed. It has been intimated to us, that as soon as he saw that his library must inevitably fall a sacrifice to the devour ing clement, he selected from it a manuscript volume, and proceeded to convey it to a place of safety. On his road thither he was surrounded by a gang of London thieves, who by some strange fatality had smelt out the fire, and was all but robbed of the treasure which he valued so highly. The clasp which enclosed the volume broke tinier their clutches, but the volume itself remained with its author, and, from his known talents and schotirsh;p, is not likely to incur the imputation of having been made hy its own weight steadfast and immutable. From this Time forward the conflagration went on fist and furious. All hopes of saving the premises then on fire were aban doned, whilst serious fears began to be entertained for the buildings opposite. The street there is very oar ' row. One of the houses directly opposite that of the 13,..v. ' Mr. Wordsworth is built of wood. The owner is a grocer of the name of Dodsworth, and had a co.isiderable quan tity of powder in his possession. Thrice was his house on fire, and thrice was the fire extinguihed. Ile was unin ,ured until yesterday morning, but the events of the pre ceding night taught him a lesson of caution, and he could not rest until he had his stock of powder carefully re moved, and his stock in trade fully insured. The want of water was felt every minute, and, as if for the purpose of making that want felt more intensely, some miscreants cut through the hose of one of the engines in three [Awes, with a view of rendering the water already obtained of no use whatsoever. At twelve o'clock the conflagration was at the highest. In front and rear of the houses the flames were darting fiercely from every window, and casting a lurid gleam upon every thing beneath them. The back of the two houses looks into extensive shrubberies planted on the declivity of the hill. Here several ladies had taken up their position as spectators of the scene ; each of them held either a candle or a torch t and their appearance, together with that of the burning buildings, has been described as singularly romantic and picturesque. By four o'clock in the morning the fire had exhausted its materiels ; a frontage of 160 feet was broken down, and roof and flooring, and all that had rested under the one and upon the other, were mixed in one common ruin and confusion. All that was left standing was scathed walls and burning rafters, each threatening instant ruin. It is some consolation to us to have it in our power to announce that not one of the pupils of the schools has been at all personally injured. One of the firemen fell from a height of more than 30 feet, but escaped with comparatively little injury. The Rev. Mr. Drury's butler in lifting n piece of furniture broke a blood-vessel, and in consequence lies at present in a very precarious situation. With re spect to the amount of loss occasioned by this disastrous event, we were informed that the houses of the Rev. Mr. Wordsworth and of Mr. Colenzo are the property of the trustees of Mr. J. Lyon, the founder of the school. They are valued at 5,0001., and are inaured for 3,0001. It is ex pected in same quarters that the Governors of the school, among whom are the Marquis of Abercorn, the Earl of Aberdeen, and other wealthy and influential noblemen, will willingly make up this deficiency for the schools at which they were educated. The house of the Rev. Mr. Words worth has been recently furnished. The furniture was in sured for 1,5001. Mr. Colenzo had added some new build ings to the school. He is insured for these buildings, and for his furniture, to the amount of 3,6001. in the County Fire-office. There is also an additional insurance in the Westminster office for 2,800/. The village of Harrow was crowed all yesterday with strangers. FURTHER PARTICULARS.—The fire was occasioned by the overheating of an air-stove, which, it appears, was in tended to heat all the rooms of the extensive buildings. It was first tred on Saturday last, when the flues were found to he very much heated, and in consequence it was not again used until Monday. It is supposed that the heat must have ignited some of the light wood -of the partition of one of the rooms which had for some time been kept closed, as it was from that room that the fl imes first showed themselves. The whole of the front buildings occupied by Mr. Colenso, being composed solely of lath and plaster, were soon one mass of fire, and had not the corridor communicating from them to the new buildings in the rear been cut away, they also must have been consumed. The following is the extent of damage done : Mr. Colenso's.—The front building tot illy destroyed, not a vestige of the walls remaining standing. Buildings insured in the We-tminster Fire Office, with those of Dr. Wordsworth and Messrs. Webb, Row, and Harris, all the property of the Governors of Harrow School, for 3,3001. The furniture, fixtures, &c., in the County Fire Office, for about 2,000/. ; and the new building in the rear, which is much damaged, is insured in the same office for 1,6001. Rev. D. Wordsworth.—The entire building totally de stroyed, the back front having fallen in. Furniture, &C., insured in the Phcenix Fire Office for 1,5001. Mr. Bowen, jun., surgeon. —Building much damaged, and furniture broken by removal. The latter insured in the County Fire Office. Mr. Blake, linen draper.—Similarly damaged. Mr. Webb, dancing master.—House and furniture da maged, and also the roof of the Assembly-room adjoining, The furniture, &c., uninsured. Mr. Row, saddler.—Much damaged. Furniture insured. Mr. Harris, baker, &c.—Ditto ditto Three or four houses on the opposite side of the street have also sustained some damage from the intense heat of the flatries ; but not to any extent. THE NORTHERN YACHT.—W e are informed this forenoon (Monday) by a gentleman who left Edinburgh this morning, that the Northern Yacht had returned safe— having been at sea since Thursday week. On making inquiry, however, and observing that neither the Caledonian Mercury, nor Edinburgh Courant of this morning con tain any intelligence of her return, we are inclined to doubt the accuracy of our informant's statement. The fol- Lowing is from the Shipping Gazette :—We are still subject to the same painful state of suspense, says our North Shields correspondent, under date of Wednesday, as to the fate of the Northern Yacht, Middleman, master, adverted to in our former repo r t. I t is needless to add, every hour prolonged without hearin g of her safety diminishes fearfully the chances of her preservation. There are scarcely ally hopes entertained of her having escaped from the gales of last week. Reports are numerous enough as to the number of passengers on board when she sailed. —some estimate the number at twenty, and others at upwards of thirty. Recent melancholy events point out the propriety of a list of passengers being always left with the steamer's agent, when they sail, that some clue may be had in cases of distress, of the individu a l s on b oard of such vessels _Glasgow Chronicle. The Edinburgh Courant of the same Jay (Muhday) says that nothing has yet been heard of tins vesse l. It was thought that she might have been driven over a the coast of Norwa f ; but the length of time that has now lapsed, without any intelligence of iwr, has well nigh dissi pated the hope, and the most sanguine begin to fear that sha has perished in 6. storm, SPORTING INTLLLIGEN CE. DUMFRIES RACES. —FRIDA r. Fifty Pounds given by his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch. Two miles. Mr. Ramsay's Lanercost, 3 yrs walked over. Fifty Pounds given by the Southern Meeting. Two mile heats. Mr. Ramsay's Fairy Queen, 3 yrs, 6st. I Olb Frances 3 1 1 Sir J. Boswell's Sunbeam, 5 yrs, Rst. 41b Mr. J. 0. Fairlie's Pyramid, 4 yrs, 7st. 101 b . First heat won by half a length, the second by a length, and the third by two lengths. COURSING. ARDROSSAN CLUB MEETING. Cup, value 29 says., for Dogs pupped in 1837.—First Class. Mr. Duggan','s w. and be. d. Harkaway, beat Mr. A. Graham's r. and w. b. Victoria ; Mr. A. Graham's bd. b. Jenny, beat Mr- Borron's b. d. Go-between ; Lord Eglinton's bk. and w. b. Moina beat Dr. Brown's bk. d. Colonel ; Mr. Cairnie's r. b. Cora beat Mr. H. Maxwell's bd. d. Mountain Dew ; Lord Eglinton's r. b. Skylark beat Mr. tiorron's bd. h. Grace ; Mr. Borron's y. b. Go beat Dr. Brown's bd. tl. Whistler ; Lord Eglinton's r. and w. d. Moses beat Dr. Brown's bd. b. Grace ; Mr. Borron's bk. b. Ga lena beat Mr. Cairnie's bd. and w. d. Catch ; Mr. A. Graham's bk. and w. d. Stewartfield beat Lord Eglinton's bk. and wit. Do nald Caird ; Mr. H. Maxwell's bd. and w. d . Midnight beat Dr. Brown's w. and bd. b. Hornet; Mr. H. Maxwell's bd. b. Mignio nette heat Dr. Brown's r. d. Oscar ; Lord Eglaiton's w. b. Swan beat Mr. A. Graham's b. d. and w. b. Jean nie ; Lord Eglinton's w. and y. d. Stargazer beat Mr. H. Maxwell's bd. and w. b. Meg Parker ; Mr. H. Maxwell's bk. and w. b. Milkmaid beat Mr. Perston's w. d. Crum. Captain Morris's d. and be. b. Victoria ran a bye. Second Class.—Harkaway beat Jenny , Cora beat Moioa ; Go beat Skylark, Moses beat Galena, Stewa rtfield beat Midnight, Mignionette beat Swan, Stargazer beat Victoria. Milkmaid ran a bye. Third Cass.—Cora tent Harkaway, Go beat Moses, Stewartfield beat Mignionette, Milkmaid beat Stargazer. Fourth Class.—Cora and Go.—No decision, and the toss was won for Cora; Stewartfield beat .Vilkmaid. Fifth Class. --Mr. A. Graham's Stewartfield beat Mr. Cairnie's Cora, and won the. Cup. Ardrossan Stakes of 40 sovs.—First Class. Mr. Geddes's bk. d. d. Bob, beat Mr. H. Maxwell's bk. d. Major ; Dr. Brown's f. and w. d. Sport beat Mr. Geddes's bk. and w. d. Terror ; Mr. Cairnie's bk. and w. b. Countess beat Lord Eglinton's bk. and w. d. Ensign ; Mr. Ge.ddes's bk. b. Rose beat Mr. H. Maxwell's bd. b. Madonna; Mr. Geddes's r. d. Glasgow beat Lord Eglinton's r. and w. b. Lass o' Patie's Mill; Mr. A. Graham's bd. b. Judy beat Mr. Geddes's bk. and w. b. Lilly ; Mr. A. Graham's bk. and w. b. Blackbess beat Sir H. Campbell's r. d. Coxcomb ; Mr. A. Graham's Sassenach beat Mr. Geddes's iv. and bk. d. Glory; Dr. Brown's bd. (I. Chalice beat Sir H. Campbell's bk. and w. d. Czar Peter , Mr. Quip's be. b. Messhy beat Mr. Geddes's bk. and W. d. Captain. Second Class.—Bob beat Sport, Rose beat Countess, Judy beat Glasgow, Black Bess beat Chance, Sassenagh beat Messhy. Third Class.—Judy beat Bob, Black Bess beat Rose. Sassenagh ran a bye. Fourth Class.—Mr. A. Graham's Judy, Black Bess, and Sas senagh won the Ardros'an Stakes. Eglinion Castle Stakes of 30 sous.—First Class. Lord Eglinton's d. and w. d. Dusty Miller beat Dr. Brown's bd. and w. d. Jock; Captain Reid's y. d. Victor beat Mr. H. Max well's be. d. Achentibber ; Mr. A. Graham's bd. d. Butter y burn beat Dr. Brown's w. d. Dancer ; Dr. Brown's bd. b. Ruby beat Mr. A. Graham's w. and y. d. Clavering ; Mr. Duggans's w. and bd. d. Spankaway beat Mr. Quin's be. b. Messhy; Captain Mor ris's bk. d. Johnny Gray beat Sir H. Campbell's r. ii. Cranberry ; Captain Morris's r. and w - . b. Missie beat Lord Eglinton's d. 41. Woodcock; Lord Eglinton's r. b. Butterfly beat Captain Graham's f. d. Napoleon ; Lord Eglinton's r. and w. d. King Coil beat Majer M'Kay's bk. b. Maida ; Captain Morris's b. d. and w. b. Mermaid beat Lord Eglinton's r. and w. d. Spred the Plough ; Dr. Brown's w. and bk. b. Nettle beat Captain GrAaiti's bd. and w. b. Scylla ; Lord Eglinton's bk. ti. Deluge beat Mr. Warner's bk. ansi w. b. Fly; Mr. A. Graham's w. and bk. d. Ball beat Mr. H. Maxwell's bk. b. Jean ; Captain :Morris's bd. tl. Miller beat Mr. H. Max well's bk. d. Moloch ; Captain Morris's bd. w. b. Mischief beat Sir H. Campbell's b. 0. Clasp. Second Class. —Dusty Miller beat Victor, Ruby beat Buttery burn, Spankaway twat Johnny Gray, Missie beat Bu telly, King Coil beat Mermaid. Deluge beat Nettle, Ball beat Miller. Alisciiie ran a bye. Third Cla,s.—ltuby beat Dusty Miller, Missie beat Spankaway, Deluge beat King Coil, Mischief beat Ball. Fourth Class.—Ruby beat Alissie, Deluge beat Mischief. Fifth Class.—Dr. Brown's Ruby beat Lord Eglinton's Deluge and won tile Stakes. Match, lot., tingle went.—Mr. Geddes's w. and bk. d. Glory beat Mr. H. illaxwell's ye : and bk. d. Courthill. Mr. W. Nightingale, of Craven, Tryer. Under the exceedingly liberal and judicious patronage of Lord Eginton, the Ardios-an bids lair , o be, at no distant period, the leading Club in Scotian I. The entry of dogs has gone on steadily increasing ; and from the variety of prizes now instituted, encou ragement is given to brin=ing forward dogs of every grade. At next meeting, which is on the second Thursday of March, there will be run for—l. The Cup for dogs of all ages. 2. The Ardrossan Stakes, of 2 sous. each dog. 3. The Eglinton Castle Stakes, of 1 soy. each dog. 4. he Skelmourlie Stakes, of 1 sov. for dogs not excseding 22 months on the second Thursday of March. 5. The Harbour Stakes, of I soy. each dog. for dogs that never won a public prize previous to entry. 6. The Selling Stakes, of I sov. each dog; each dn. '' entered to be purchasable tor 5 sovs.—the owner of the dog watch runs up to have the first choice. A young woman, whose name did not transpire, ap plied to the Magistrates at the Town Hall, S utliAark, yes t rday, under somewhat singular circumstances. From her statement, it appeared that about two years ago a Mrs. Good body had an infant entrusted to her to nurse, but her milk dis agreeing with the child, it was shortly after handed over to the applicant, with whom it his since remained, and who has received no payment on its account. Neither of the women know the parents of the child, but e. medical gentleman re siding at ('amden-town had made rep wed applications to the present nurse to have the infant delivered up to him, offering to pay all expenses. This the woman refused to do until satisfied that no harm was intended to it, as she did not think that the gentleman in question was the father. She, there fore, solicited the edvice of the Magistrates. Alderman K,•lly recommended that she should apply in company with some respectable person, to the medical gentleman alluded to, in order to ascertain what his inteetiona were. She promised to do so, and left the office. Yesterday morning, as Frederick Rickets, Esq., of Morley's Hotel, was proceeding along Drury-lane, a noto rious pickpocket, naire d John Ram, was observed by Ars. Eliza Reece, of Duke-street, Lincoln's-ins-fields, to steal Mr. Rickets's handkerchief from his pocket. She imme diately pursued the fellow, and, seizing him by the collar, kept hold of him until Mr. Rickets came to her assistance. Oa the arrival of a policeman the thief was given into cus tody, and, on searching him, the property was found, and likewise another valuable silk handkerchief. The prisoner was yesterday examined at Hatton-garden Police. office, and remanded. Mrs. Reece attended, and was highly compli mented by Mr. Rogers for her courage. Mr. Rickets, after the examination, handsomely rewarded her for her active in terference. The prisoner was identified by the officers as one of the most expert and notorious pickpockets in London, having been several times convicted of felony. MONTROSE SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—The ap pearance of the bridge on Friday morning (says the Mi)ntrose Review), proved teat we had underrated the extent and na ture of the catastrophe. The structure, as most of our readers know, is suspended by four main chains, which were recently strengthened by additional links, and rest on massive stone towers, 72 feet high, 39} wide, and 20 feet in thickness at the level of the roadway, and at the top 32 by 12. The dis tance betwixt the suspension towers is 432 feet, and the bridge thus presented (ate visit and beautiful spats over a deep and ra pid river, unequalled in extent by any similar erection in Bri tain, excepting the Menai bridge. The entrance to the bridge is by an archway in each tower, 18 feet high by 16 fact wide. The platform, or roadway, was laid upon cast iron beams, suspended from the main chains by perpendicular iron bars, or tension rods, about five feet apart. On the occasion of a westerly gale, the bridge has been frequ •ntly observed in a kind of undulatory motion ; but on Thursday after noon, about dusk, it rocked like a vessel tossed by an angry , sur - e g and at the height of the storm the platform separated nearly at the centre, and, to the extent of about 130 feet, was almost instantaneously torn up by the violence of the hurricane, and disappeared in the highly agitated wsters below. The main-chains, indeed, had stood firm, but almost all the tension rods were twisted and b-it from their po-itien, and many broken ; and, independent of the large portent of it carried away, the platform had, by the extraordinary vibration of the bridge, been detached six or seven inches from the stonework at each end. Portions of the wrecked roadway were on Friday morning still suspended by the ch ,ins, and hung downwards to the river, while the remaining parts arc bent and inclined seemingly according to the pleasure of the rods. The dreary aspect of this magnificent work gave silent but powerful admonition of the ease with which the strongest and most beautiful works of man cart be riven and shattered, and trampled beneath the power of the elements, when their strength is put forth in wrath. Temporary accom modation for the mail and other coach horses has been nr°. vid,cl on Rossie Island, while the passengers, &e. are "con veyed by ferry-boats, but it is believed that a road for pels s trians may speedily b .. constructed over the breach in the bridge without much difficulty. HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY. -A Special General Court was holden on Monday evening at the Armoury llouse, Finsbury, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the conduct of two privates of that long-est e hn s t w d corps, of which the Duke of Sussex was appointed Captain.. General and Colonel , soon af t er the acce ssion of her present Majesty to the thro ne . Lieutenant-Colenel Co x , t h e second in command, preside d, and the Court of Assistants was very full. The ae ia a n charges of ewere insubordination, a againstetproperty residing a t E a li ng, for . including a re f usa l to drink Mr. a chemi s t, an d Mr. R repeated were the ueeni present; o 11 s sentence and, after the Queen's health at one of the meetin g s of the corps, the boasting of an assault up on an officer, with several other acts calculated to injure the p ros p ects and p ros p erit y of the Cm epiagnhyt large. witnesses had ,About been examined, was that of dismissal, which wets confirmed by th e C ourt of Assistants, the proceedi n g s havin g lasted from seven o'clock 7 members until eleven. Mr. W-- denied the authority of the Court, and expressed his intention of appealing to the Court of Queen's Bench for a revision of the sentence, and a restitution to the privileges of this ancient corps, which is the only rem nant of the trained bands. PEDESTRIANISM. —George Pargeter, a man of sixty-six years of age, undertook, for a wager, to walk to the sixteenth mile-stone on the Deeside road, to the Cross in Aberdeen, in four hours, which he accomplished in three hours and thirty-five minutes, with perfect ease—transacted his busi ness in town, and returned home on f.aot next day, as if he had walked the journey in his usual jog -trot. —Aberdeen Herald. The schooner Rebe/, Captain Spriggs, h as arr i ve d in the River from Seiyrna. being the firstfruit vessel home from thence this season. She sailed from Smyrna on the 17th September, CRIMINAL COURT-WEDNESDAY. OLD COURT. Mary Hill was convicted of stealing a pocket handkerchief on Snow-bill, the property of Mi . Gauntlett, of Queen-street, Cheapside. The COMMON SERGEANT, addressing the prisoner, said—l think 3ou are an old offender ? Prisoner—l have been a few times in Bridewell, my Lord. The COMMON SERGEANT—And a few times in the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields ? Prisoner-Yes, but only on charges of being disorderly; it was not for felony. One of the officers of Newgate said the prisoner, although a young woman, had been convicted and imprisoned at least twenty different times. . The Ccteetner SERGEANT—Then it is the duty of the Court to transport her. The prisoner, who had betrayed the greatest indifference during the trial, on hearing this observation from the Court, burst into tears and was much aeitated. After some conver sation, it not appearing she ha'l been convicted on any serious charge, the Court ordered her to be imprisoned six months. On the prisoner being removed from the bar, The COMMON SERGEANT wished to call the attention of the Jury to the great terror prisoners entertained of being trans porters. In fact it w 4 only the die ad of punishment that ap peered to make any impression, and if that punishment was done away with he believed it would be impossible to live in this country. He trusted the speculation which had been ad vised, of trying such an experiment, would neeer be carried into k if:et ; if it way, he should tremble for the cons-qu .noes. Sir P. LAURIE was surprised any difrrence of oeinien on thiQ subject should exist tmongst lea. ned gentlemen of the Bar. The COMMON-SERGEANT then said th..t in future the Court were determined to act on one uniform principle, and that was, en the first conviction to give one chance by (Ay sen tencing the party to be imp; i*oned for a certain time; but if they were convicted a second time, the punishment in every case (no exception would be made) would be transportation. The next prisoner tried -( who stood at the bar during the above observations) wa.; found guilty of stealing six pocket. handkerchiefs from the shop of a pawnbroker. The COMMON SERGEANT—You have been before convicted of a similar offence? Prisoner—Only once, my Lord. The Commits SERGEANT —You hare beard the rule the Court has laid (Liven in the ease of a second conviction, a rule which will not be departed from. Therefore, the sentence is, that you be transported beyond the seas for seven years.—The prisoner on hearing this sentence burst into tears. The COMMON SERGEANT (to the Jury)—You see, Gentle men in every care the great terror which exists of the punish ment of transportation. Benjamin Parker, aged 2ti, was indicted for feloniously uttering a certain foreed acceptance to a bill of exchange, for the sum of 1571. 3s. 9d., with intent to defraud Henry Hul bert, and others. One or two witnesses were called to character. Tne Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1S S. NEW COURT. Thomas Jones, axed 27. and Rebecca Fisher, 22, were in dicted for stealing at St. Pancras, on the 21st . of Septemter last, a pocket-book, containing a Bank note of the value of SL, and four sovereigns, the property of John Thompson, from the person of Mary Thompson. Mrs. Thompson, a respectable-looking female of middle age. deposed as follows:-1 reside at Ramsey, in the Isle of Man. On the 29th of September I arrived at the terminus, Euston-square, by the Birmingham Railway train. When I alighted from the carnage, the prisoner Jon's, who was a stran:er, said to me, " Your luggage is in the fist carriage." When he so accosted me my book, containing a 51. note and three sovereigns, were safe in my pocket. When adjusting my shawl I felt an extraordiria-y pressure on my hip, and I put my hand down and found to pock-t-book was gone. I in stantly turned round and charged Jones with robbing me: There were several ladies and gentlemen near me, but none suffici ently so to take my hook. I called a policeman, and before he came up the female prisoner came up to Jones, when she said to me, " I'll take you to the gentleman that I saw take your pocket-book." I told her I was sure he (Jones) was the man who took it. The female then went away and mixed with the crowd, and I held Jones fast until the officer came up, and then I pointed out the young woman, and she was fol lowed, and the officer found my book in her possession. John Booth examined—l am inspector of police on the London and Birmingham Railway, and was at the station in Euston-square on the night in question. On the arrival of the train I heard a call of " police," and Mrs. Thompson said " I am robbed of my pocket lxiok, a 51. note, and three sove reigns; this man (holding Janes) has robbed me; take him into custody." She said, I think the man has handed the book to a lady in black," and pointed out the female, and I sent an officer after her. John -. lam a policeman on the railroad. In conse quence of directions given by Inspector Booth, I went to the female prisoner, who stood in a " cluster" of people, com plaining that she could not find her " blue box" which con tained her luggage. I was in plain clothes at the time. and I saw Fisher stoop down and drop something. I looked over her shoulder and found it was a book, which was claimed by the prosecutrix. Two of the sovereigns seemed to have teen taken out. No blue box was found belonging to the lem'ile prisoner. The Jury pronounce 1 both prisoners guilty. The COMMON-SERGEANT said that it was quite o°,r that the prisoners were by far too dextrous to remain in this c-un try. The sentence of the Court was that they be each trans ported beyond seas for the term of ten ycats. Some years ago Jones was tried at this Court for burglary, and the female is the person who ,some time since was given in charge, with h, r sister Ryan, for robbing a lady of her purse in Shoreditch church, in the hours of Divine service. They have long ben in connection with the " flash members of the swell mob." _ _ Charles _Lawrence, a young lad. was indicted for stealing Book-notes and moneys of the value of 30/., the property of Francis Abbott and another. his employers. The prisoner having pleaded guilty, The COMMON-SERGEANT said the sentence was that he be transported beyond seas for the term of seven years. - SURREY SESSIONS, Oc•r. 24 .Henry Austin, John Conway, and John Sullivan were in dicted for :stealing a waistcoat, the property of Joseph Turner, a shopkeep er a t N ew i ng ton. The ottly remat kable circumstances attending the case were, that the three prisoners were, without exception, as bad cha racters as any that frequented the south side of the water. The charge havi n g been proved against all of them, and a verdict of - Guilty pronounced, • The CHAIRMAN said that the sentence of the Court was, that they be transported for seven years each. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HA I TON-GARDEN. Yesterday William Connelly, the driver of a cabriolet, No. 1,423, was brought up on a summons, charged by Mr. John London, cabriolet proprietor, with nut having duly accounted to him in respect to his earnings. It appeared that the prisoner was employed by the com plainant, as a licensed driver, to take out a horse and cab, whet-, he allowed another man, called a "buck," to drive for him, without the consent of the proprietor. The deputy driver had given Captain Roscoe, of the Royal Navy, into custody, for refusing to pay him his fare, and the Captain was convicted before the Lord Mayor, and ordered to pay the' ex penses. The horse and cab were taken home by the prisoner, who refused to give any money to his employer. The prisoner was convicted, but Mr. London intimated that if 34 and the costs were paid, he would be satisfied. The prisoner was ordered to pay accordingly. Yesterday Inspector Cantbell, of the E division, stated to Mr. Rogers that on Tuesday night last, about half-past eight o'clock, a woman of respectable a, pearance was ob served lurking abut the house of Mr. Cifton, solicitor, of No. 17, Bedford-row, and shortly after a child was found in the passage, when it was delivered to a police constable, who took it to the station-house. The unfortunate babe was about five months old and was neatly clad. It was sent to St. An lrew's workhouse, having been found in that parish. Every inquiry had been made, but nu clue could be traced to its unlatural parent. The child, whose appear ince was most healthy, was pro duced. It etas dressed m fine calico, with a silk cap, a merino clottk, and wrapped up in flannels, and had evidently been well nurtured. The apparel wss marked "R. L. D.," and a bundle was left by its side. Vear. 54 E, proved having received the child and taking it to the s tation-house. Mr. ROGERS ordered that the child should be taken back to the w orkhouse, and that every inquiry should be made to trace if possible to whom it belongel. Inspect()) Canth , ll promised to use every effort fur that pur pose, and the pirties left the offs .0. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. Charles Hunt, a pt.rson of very respectable appearance, wa; brought before Mr. CONANT and Mr. COURTNEY, charged with having plundered his employer, Mr. Cartwright, surgeon-den tist, of Old Burlington-street. of property to a cobsidorable amount. The pri s oner was fully committed. UNION-HALL. Yesterday, William Pe , Idris, the waterrnan of a coach- s t an d, wearing the badge No 68, and Robert Barricks, were brought up, charged with stealing pewter pots, the property of publicans hying in the neighbourhood of this office. After evidence had been adduced, the Magistrates sum marily convicted the prisoners, and sentenced them to ten months' imprisonment each ; regretting at the s ame t i me t h at they had not the power of adding the punishment of the tread. mill to the sentence. QUEEN SQUARE. bead gardener to th e B aron d e B erenger, Thomas Ha rris, C r emorne H ouse, WaS yesterday plac e d a t t h e b ar, charged with stealing choice dahlies and seedlings to the value of 401., o f Mr. William D e n n i ss , t h e extensive florist of t h e P roperty King's-road, Chelsea. Prisoner, in defence, said that a man took him there, and told him to select what he chose. Mr. GREGORIE thought prisoner's defence one of the most improbable he had mr-t with for a length of time, and sen tenced him to be imprisoned and kept to Lard labour for the term of six months. WORSHIP STREET. Yesterdny Mr. John Elswoi thy, and Mr. Thomas Elswor thy, his brother, who represented themselves to be stop brokers, were placed at the bar before Meeirs, 9Foya and CODD, charged with assaulting Joshua Wort, the toll.collec tor at the Kingsland-gate turrpike. They were fined 403. each. The penalty was paid, and the defendants were discharged. THAMES- OFFICE... - - George Campbell,;YOung man of good address, was charged with illegally pawning a blanket and a pillow, the property of Thomas Cochrane, of Wapping, in whose house he had rented ready-furnished lodgings, from which he took the property and pawned it. The ease was clearly made cut against the prisoner, who said he was impelled by want to act as he had done. The prosecutrix, Mrs. Cochrane, had no wish to hurt the young man, and was willing to arrange the matter. Mr. BALLA NTINE—I am not permitted to do so. I should be acting contrary to law, and contrary to my oath, if I was to be a party to compromising a misdemeanour or compound ing a felony. It may be improper for me to say that I wish the case was never brought here at all. It is brought here, and I must do my duty The worthy M 4gigtrate then sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of twenty shillings fur illegally pawning, and three ahil hogs, the sum advonced upon the articles, or be imprisoned twenty dad s. MADAME VESTRIS AND HER HUSBAND. PARK. THEATRE, NEW YORK —The town was on the qui vice all last Motu!, y, in anticipation of the first appearance on our boards of Ve-triis rr , d Matnev.s Wl en the curtain rose, net only the se.-ts. but the hies. were full, aid the manager was obliged to close the tickst-offices, and turn away bundle ds from the doom; tl•e rrc dies .;mounted to Within a few 4tillittes of 1,750 dollars. The pedal-malt:es commenced with the intro duction of Mali m:• Vestris, in an allegorical interlude "r , y Planche, taken f.ten the Drama's Levee. The instant sho appeared she was g eased with' the most unbounded en thusiasm—se trecesnduous was tte cheering for several minutes, that if any symptoms of disapprobation were meet. felted they were unheard. The lady appeared exceedingly affected by the warmth of her reception, and the deep feeling of gratefulness she expressed was evidently heattfa It. The popular farce of the Loan of a Lover introduced her in a cha racter mere suited to her versatile powers. Of the inimitels'e Peter Spyk and Gertrude of Latham and Mrs. Chapman, who were the originals in those parts on our boards, tie Park audience entertain the most delightful reminiscences. The Keeleys sub,equently made these two characters their own, and, if we except Mrs. Keeley's Lucille, 'neither, perhaps, apreared to greater advantage in any other. Under such cir cumstances, to make en impression as Gertrude upon an au dience whose very idea of the character was associated with one of its most unbounded and fonely-cherished favourites, was next to an impassibility; but Madame Vestris accomplished it. Her impersonations were distinguished by all the sweetness and naaoral grace of which the part is sesceptible. But the distinguishing feature of Madame Vestris's Gertrude was the surpassing melody of her ballads ; nothing we have ever beard is comparable with them, and the one commencing with " I've no money" we are confident has never been equalled on our stage. The reception of Mr. C. Mathews was also highly flattering.—New York Spirit of the Times, ESCAPE OF THE BEAR FROM THE LIVERPOOL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. —AS a ,variety of stories are abroad respecting the recent elopament from Mr. Atkins's zoological estahlishment, we give the following particulars from the mouth of one who had a peculiar opportunity of knowing the real facts of the case. The individual alluded to is a person named William Mayman. He says—" About six o'clock on Sunday evening, the 7th inst., I was standing at my own door, near to which was a man with a basket of nuts for sale. This man first saw a large bear make his way over a gate into alane. He immediately threw his basket to the beast, and it corn.. menced eating the nuts. At this moment a child between two and three years old being on its way to buy some nuts, I ran and caught .hold of it to bring it to my house for safety. Be fore I had advanced many yards the bear jumped upon my back, seized my right arm, and began to grind it with his teeth in a dreadful manner. I struggled with him to the best of my power, but he threw me down. I cried out Mulder but no one came to my assistance. He then loosed my right arm, and I got upon my feet. I could not, however, make my escape. He next put his paws upon my shoulders, and at tempted to seize my throat, Not succeeding in this, be caught hold of my left arm, and bit it completely through. He again tried at my throat ; I kept him off, and he fastened once more upon my right arm, threw me down and commenced dragging me up and down the road as a cat would a rat. I was still calling ' Murder,' bet could get no assitance. Presently the bear loosed my arm and began to bug me. He next seized me by the hip with his teeth, and lastly got hold of me by the back of the head, when the keepers of the gardens came and beat him off, just in time to save my life. The beast then ran away, and I sew no more of nim. I was taken into the house by my wife, and medical aid procured for me ; and though I was first pronounced to be in a dangerous state, I thank God my wounds are all doing well but I am still lying in the po sition I was in this night week, unable to move or be moved." —Liverpool Courier. THE WEATHER.-011 Saturday week there was a considerable fall of snow at Skiplam and the district about Kirhymoomide. On the following morning the snow was shoe. top de eie whilst in the fields there was a quantity acorn in stock, and there is still a great weight uncut, and much of it is quite g reen.—Hull Observer. The weather has been exceeding') boisterous of ;ate—in fact rife with dis,ster by laud And by sea The *.otm seems to have travelled from north to south ; at Montrose the fine suspension Sr. ir.g Bridge was rendered impassible; wherever the coast was .much posed, the safety of vest.els was menaced even in port ; and f..; miles around the capitals of counties, trees uptcited, cundt- , carried away, meadows sub-merged, emb tnkmen s damaged. and houses do tried, were common occurtesess. Ie Dumfries. shire and Gail .way, the weather, from all we learn, was a good deal mole moderate; bui still we hate heard of nume rous casualties, more espeeiaily in the woods, and ott sectiot:s of coast as far round as Troon and Ayr. On Thursday and Friday week the wind blew with great violence, accompaniee in the valleys with bail and rain ; ai.d on the following morn ing there was a considerable fall of snow Among the Moffat hills. When the storm reached the Al , r,ey the turmoil wa, fearful ; front the Docks to the Rock and far beyond, all was commotion ; within the river, cillision was unavoidable ; spars were lost and boats bulged in more instances than have yet been noted, am', the season considered, a foretaste was given ly alarming of the most tempestuous periods of winter. Up to Thursday, the 18th current, the weather was wet and mild, not merely in Dumfri,.s-shire and Gad o nay, but over the whole West of Scotland. The weather, we regrA to say, .is •gain broken, and such crop as ai I exprred must have been terribly battered during the last ten days or more.—Dumfries Courier. MYSTERIOUS CASE.-011 the 10.11 inst., Mar garet M.Kidop was brought to the Gorbals police office, chdr%:ed with stealing a qunntity of wearing apparel, two pounds odd of money, and with decaying or carrying away a child of ten years of age, which has not since been seen or herd of. The mother of the child lodged information at the different police r.ffiees, and has made inquiry wherever she thought it likely she could obtain the• least information regard ing her child, but it seemed a hopeless task. On Saturday, I °Never, some children had seen the woman M'Killop, on the day stated in the charge, leaving the house in question with a bundle, and the children also observed her going into a house iu Rutherglen Loan, and they immediately carried the infor mation to the disconsolate mother, who found means to corn: municate the circumstances to the police, who went direct to the house pointed out by the children, and found the woman charged lying in bed. Her appearance answers exactly to the description given by those who saw her taking away the child and the property on the 10th inst. She denies all knowledge of the theft of the child. There' are four witnesses who say they saw her, on the day above stated,•carrying a bunile, and leading along the lost child. Two of them saw her in the High-street that day, and the child was with her. She is a woman of the most depraved habits, and there is reason to fear tl at the child, who could be the only witness of the theft of t! err perty and money—as there was no other person at the time ;n the house—may, by this wretchei woman. be sent out of the way, perhaps murdered, to conceal the guilt. —Glasgow Chronicle. COL. TITO MPSON AND MR. `WARD.—In the Morning Chronicle we find a letter to Col. Thompson, signed " H. G. Wald;" and, as we have no small regard for the Member for Sheffield, we wish the said letter !id borne ano ther signature. By a typographical error in the Chronicle, Col. Thompson.. in his speech at the Hull meeting, was mar's to attribute certain expressions to Mr. Ward, which really be longed to Mr. Willoughby Wood. The Colonel lost no time in correctint' the mistake, by sending a letter to the Ch , onielr. This letter produced a reply from Mr. Ward, which that gen tleman, perhaps, fancies to be clever and cutting; but, to our mind, it is worthy of a trained and hired scribbler of para graphs for some not over-scrupulous Tory journal, and utterly unworthy of an accomplished gentleman sod Liberal Member of 1 3 ,:rliainent. And Mr. Ward is substantially wrong in his argument, as well as not and vulg: rin his style. He de nii's that in consideritz the Canadian quest on, " he set aside the question of abstract justic,!;" but w, ar, perfectly Confi dent that Mr. Ward was reported in a SheffiArl paper to have uttered, if not the identical words, the sentiment which those words clearly conveyed ; and we defy Mr. Ward to esc a p e from the dilemma in which he is placed. For, if he admits the abstract justice of the Canadian claims, he must conckmn the means used to pf rpetuate injustice ; sad if he denies the right to resist injustice, he virtually lends his sanction to the com mission of the most atrocious tyranny. No, Mr. Ward, if you are not prepared to justify the violation of the Canadian con stitution, and to deny the constitutional right of the Heuse of Assembly to stop the supplies, you must allow that justice was on the side of the Canadians and Papineau. But you try to reconcile opposite, when you say that abstract justice was on the side of the Canadians, and yet that they ought not to de fend their rights, but were immediately put in the wrorg when they stood on their defence. We recommend the Member for Sheffield, when he next enters the lists with Colonel Thomp son, to look to his logic, and to abstain front the flippant and a unbecoming manner which he has been so misled as to use to.- wards person in many respects very far his superior. —Hull Observer. The Pilot of Dublin, referring to Mr. Laudor's last letter writes, " Mr. S. Landor, in a good-humoured manner, declines further controversy upon Irish policy with so thorough a judge of that difficult science as Mr. O'Connell. We commend his discretion, and admire his diffidence. Hi s a d v ice touching the Church, though disguised in a sailor's jacket, conveys a sound and sensible moral. We, however, who think the old wreck cannot be made sea-worthy by any hammering while a lubberly and guzzling crew and igng rak t and avaricious officers disgrace the service, would voc o i un i end an immediate breaking-up of the crazy vosg o l.o' Sir James steam-coach is finish e d , alk 4 yv iii start from Buttevant for this city in a forte'-o,g, % melting at dfccen miles au 94r9,00, rilE MARKETS. COAL 11 AR Per Ton. a. • A2air•a . Oct. 24. Tnn. s. Walls End Braddyll's Hatton 24 6 Walls End Haswell ...... :24 0 %P.. 11,••• Hettnir... ........... `;. -4 Walls End North Hetlon ..... alls End Lambton ............ 24 3 Walls End Itussel's Hatton... 2t stewar"s .......... Wa h End Whitwell ............ 23 3 Walt Enl Hartlimool. ......... 24 6 Walls End Barrett ............. 1/3 ° alls End Tees • ........... "•• Graigoll Handpicked .......... 1 3 • Cancel •0 raveley Main i2St ri tract-lay. 31. ares Hartley U Lioly rd's Recthnsh Russell's Fliih Main l.O . . _ art:ithl M0 . 0 . r 23 6 Willington ... 2l 6 Wal s End (io-forth 2:3 6 Nail, Etui Heaton 23 U Walls End Hilda i•alls End Horfpur Walls is N,i,vmarcli.... :2 9 Lambton's Primrose Walk End Belmont Ships tr r tved since COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK• Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. Beans. Pease. Per Quarter. Abingdon Andover s to s. s. to s. s to s. 64 8) :10 34 22 30 74 52 29 31 25 63 SO 30 40 16 22 73 80 32 16 26 34 , 01 SI a 32 20 2.5 65 $0 26 311 24 30 1;8 r 5 ',13 15 2. :10 72 7-4 26 32 23 26 63 1 , 8 1 32 22 2.) 61 7 i 32 12 , 34 63 75 24 3') 21 26 61 71 32 34 22 29 64 71 , 35 2.i 27 64 74 ' 14 20 IS 6 7 j :33 40 ..); 32 64 71 , 36 20 21 22 32 70 74 iIA 32 17 28 61 72 ' 24 34 20 25 67 70 27 34 22 Ai 76 —j 21 22 6 - , 75 ! 32 36 1 30 3 a. to S. S. ... --. _ - Bridport Cirencester Guildford en ficreit I w.rt h Mah'xii head ... Monmouth— Reading Sal i sbury - -- 2 .1(! _ - -. "" - -, 34 '''' R; 44 31 40 1,3 42 41 40 - - : 3 .5 - -:.- .... Sotati..miptoli itroutl Uxbridge Nantage----- VVArminster - 411 4•2 3f. - 4t 3 .1- 48 - 46 114 6! 9 7 9 0 S 0 er ItuNhel IIELI' , .:NHAM )..f ARKETF to s, 1 l',i .... 70 8 0 : ll,ti ..... 3 , 4 0 , q•iit, , fi 30 4 0 , 17(.4; .. 5 0 56 , Pork l-,, , , , flay 21.105. t 4/. 10 ~ Od. 1, HULL MARKET.—Oct. Wheat, Old SS , 63a. 70- New s.Bs. ells 63, Foreign 641.684 Wo e ! In bond... —_ ---, ... 4 Oats, Poland Small or Feed.... —a. 17a. Its. ,, . ...Oa. -- Ft , reign —s. —s. —s —s. • --e Barley, Non & Suf ... 361 32. 335. Line, At Wold --s. 30s. 333 Foreign Beans '56:. 38s. 42, F,imgn 26.28 30;. Pease, White.,,, ..... 363 38s 40a. (irey 26.,. 28- nO . . Tares _ 345. 36;. 38s Foreign Rapeseed. In bond none. Free per last 33 Os. 371. L VERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Oct. 23. %%MAT, English, White, per 701 b. 11..3d to 11 SM. ---- Red lo 9 11 B ---. Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White lO 0 10 6 Red I 3 10 0 • ---- Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b. 3 6 3 1 -- Irish .., 3 0 3 Foreign 0 0 0 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 56 0 40 0 ---. Scotch and Irish, per 60lbs. ---- Feeding 4 0 4 6 BEersl, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 47 0 Irish, &c. 96 0 44 0 Foreign PEASE, Englisn, per Imperial quarter 44 0 4 1 Foreign Fume, English,. per W.olb. is 0 60 0 ---. Irish ' - ' OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 27 6 0 9 0 IN.'IAN CORN, pt r 4401 b. ..... 3g . 0 42 Rex, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN f4* the Week ending Oct. 22. Wheat. Oats. I Barley Flour. Oatlnea' Qrs. Qrs. Ors. I Foreign, Rigs.' Irish, /cc. Scks.l Loall• 7,477 8,713 1,141 8,7:6 1 2,432 3,19 i ...... LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Om 24. The sales to-day were not so extensive as those last I :e' ported, and the market had a quieter tone, still a large quan tit Y, changed hands at yesterday's prices. The entire transacti t Z amount to 6,000 bags-700 Maranham, 7id. t o skd. ; Pernam, 914. to 9d. ; 100 Egyptian, 100 to lad. ; 150 Ca r . thagena, 4d. ; 800 Surat, 40. to 5-id. ; 4,250 Ameri can, 6d. to 71,d. A gratifying instance is recorded o f th e t r i u mph o , steam. Goods from Bristol, En g l an d, reac h e d Cl ev elol o , , .; town of Ohio, on the shores of Lake Erie, in o nly days They were brought ac ross th e A t l ant i c b y t h e Gre a Western. MR. URQUHART'S TRAVELS IN THE EAsr• We cannot but agree with the following sentiments exprea ~ t by a Contemporary relative to thi s i mportant work I",.ta one of the most interesting and val ua bl e wor k s o f inotfi a l times. With several of Mr. Urquhart's opinions on Pnlit matters we do not agree; but the information, the learl s . • the admirable pictures of mankind i n th e E as t ern countr which he lays before us, the vi ews o f re li g i on , l e gislati °o, social life, government, and history—the errors he clears ~,i. and the facts hitherto almost unknown, which he es tablishea Lio the felicity of his illustrations, .a n d th e s p r i g htliness of I . narrative, make this one of the works o f an age . The Grer; are here in their true colours. The T ur k s and their rag? are described in a way we never before saw, and the descrTe tints bears in every iine Ihe stamp of truth. Many point s our policy connected with thos,. ciiuntries are explained at, illustrated in a way that will make these volumes of mucr value to the statesman and the politician. In short, aD e . ii once reading the work, every person who possesses it vil l make it a text book for all topics connected wi t h th e parts o f thr. world on a hich the author treats. It is a book RhtCb will live from generation to genet-41km." On Tuesday night, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock, a serious explosion of gas occurred at the AO of Mr. &hart, a litiendriper, residing in the London -road. Southwark. The flames were extinguished before they com municated to the ship, and only sonic squares of glass were I;roken, On Tuesday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, as a lad named Jos. ph Juniper, in the service of Mr. Rieh tea-d, aler, of Walbrook, was crossing the Westminste r., road, a gentleman's carriage, which was passing at the tiT e _ at a qui c k rate , k noc k e d hi m d own. He was conveyed to tdo Westminster Hospital, where it was ascertained be bad re:, ceived a f rac . ure o f t h e s k u ll ; but there is every prospec t r his doing we ll. N o bla ,e is attach e d to the coachman, : r° t pulled up his horses to prevent the accident, but witn °- success. Yesterday m orn i ng , b etween seven and eight o Pck, c a youth n a m e d Th omas F raser, b etween thirteen and footle 1' years of age, in the en ploymeni of Mr. Bladdud, of Pern i ! a c , , treat, St. Luke's, wireworker, while near the steam-eng lv had his right arm drawn itt between the drum and the strata ‘; and althou g h hi s eves i nstant l y a l armed a fellow . vr orkln a having the controul of the engine, yet before it could ba 5 1. ped the p oor b oy ' s h an d was crushed in such a drea df u l n' a ner that amputation at the wrist was found indispensable. ROBBERIES.—On M on d a y n i g h t, f rom the b oos t No. 22, Gr ea t Q ueen - street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, a ra_,,,, liiie e s b snuff-box i n a ti n j a p anne d case , w i th the figure o f a Tttets and hors e s on th e ou t s id e , and the name of Mi ss H u rry o 'ol inside with p enc il. On Friday afterno on f rom a ca rt, w 0 0 passing along the City- roa d, a canvass package, markedl- 01 the outside "P. 2," conta i n i ng a very large blue c Spanish cloak, velvet co ll ar , li ne d w i th silk, a s il ve r: 11 (00 r and clasp attached, four linen shirts, marked "B. N•t, the or five pairs of new stockings and four or five Latin boo k s , ea' property of Francis Brunit, of the Catholic Chapels ', l 7, r ing, don-square, Somers -town, The felony was effected u - , r , the absence of the carman. On Monday, from the b° ° '„ c o- Mrs. Hiles, 67, Upper Stamford -street, Blackfriars, a t s illc coloured silk c l oa k , tr i mme d with black velvet, a Wet s ilk pelisse with th e cape tr i mmed with fringe, and a light ph dress. On Sunday night, from the stable of Mr. St ec/111 0 Gold Ha nger , E ssex, a d ar k b rown mare, s i x years o ld, l b° 15 hands hi g h. be' l CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA.—An order , the issued to the proper officers in Nottingham and throng b° 4cl o county to charg e th e owners w h o use dogs in draw i n g with the d og t ax . Thi s i s very proper, and shoul d bee for more general, until some legislative act is passed to lee scri ts tea danger a r i s i ng from d o g s b ecom i ng ra bid , of wh i c h it is j o s) (with what truth and accu rac y we p reten d not to deter' there have been lately many frightful instances b ,l T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, & c ., 47, G u t' . Po% London (S even D oors f rom Gracechurch-street), informs tj'6ol"" lie, that he has a considerable variety of SECOND-HAND, s oo" WATCHES, any of whi c h h e o ff ers at EI GHT GUI NEA They have all been carefully examined, and are warranted. Watches purchased in exchange. R IR 'IRS. Lei ce ; On the 19th inst., at the Parsonage. Woodhouse Eves' . 1 1.1 gr inshire, the lady o f t h e Rev. Robert Willi am Close, of sti child. S94' On the 20th inst., at Brighton, the lady of .1. T. Bits kir4 of a daughter. ---- MARRIED. ~ralef At Waleot Chur.h, Rath, on th e 11th i nst., Wanton 1;; t la° Amiel, Esq., R.N., to Margaret Ann, third daughter Of Rev. W. Morga n , D . U .. Rector of Aston Clinton Be„,ekslOtell; On the 22d inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, Alfred v' e p r of '- of Pusey-hill, Jamaica, to .liza Sarah, youngest daughr" late Julian Biaegini, E.„ i - br a On the 23d inst.,, of London, merchant. r ail o '4o '...t. St. John's, Waterloo-road, Edward of late Richard Esq ,of Great S.„re,-greet, to Mary, youngest daughter - 0. , ;Arnold, Esq., of Combe-fields, WaryrickalVsligo o f On the '23d inst., at Harrington Hall, Robert Duncow fsq.2_ s3 , Esq. eldest son of Robert Eden Duncombe Shaft°' to It° t h Wt . itworth Park, in th e county of Durham, to Charl f % u por Youngest (laughter of th e l ate W illiam Baring, E sq' , ° Castle. • • Ar ebr DIP, p. r a tio a s. On the 11th of July, at Chittoor, East Indies, -- P..,,d." — _,.., bald APNair, loth R giment Madras Native I n fant Es l o Ori the 26th of August last, in Jamaica, James miter Is late of Weyhill Plantation, in that island, and of rlig ' Vie°4' London, aged 66. r Charl es On tue 10th inst., at Geneva, Edward, son a- ~.. ...the ness, Esq., of Alverston, Warwickshire, aged 7 wee" • vlioau;;,,„ On the 17th inst., at Kinlet Vicarage, Shropshire', 5 ni ony' 3, infant daughter of the Rev. William Bruere Otter, se," a ged 4 . On the 20th i nst., at Abbey Lands, county of 4--n troth or Hugh M'Calmont, Esq., of Abbey Lands. 9, Pq'' On the 22d inst., Ann, the wife of William Wil liorn °S , IP Moliniere House, Wandsworth, aged 72. iS Inu i°- es On the 22d inst., at Iltulge-row, aged 79, Amy FOP of the Society of Friends. L its"r' On the 22d inst., at Herne Hill, Surrey, George s ur' pli aged 78. the °_,...d 11' !lying son Of the late Robert Allan, Esq., surgeon , Br ,„ an ston " , At Bletchingly, Surrey, on the 22d inst., Then l l s i t ic, a ged Ou the 23d inst., in Upper York-street, , J p i ncer" Thomas Denning, _Esq., aged 72. third daughter of Colonel Robert Nixon. e 7:4°' yov l46 ' 0 1• 4 1 2 La 0 1 4 On the 18th I nst., at Cayersham, near Rea din g , Anns London : Printed and Published by MURDO charm . 26, HIM of Middlesex. —Thursday, 0 112, Strand, at The Sun Once , Na. 112, _StBllll.l.''